tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.comments2017-08-15T09:24:48.406-04:00Nighthawk PostcardsJay W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16401961514919538809noreply@blogger.comBlogger119125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-67114067669069167912017-08-15T09:24:48.406-04:002017-08-15T09:24:48.406-04:00YoBit allows you to claim FREE CRYPTO-COINS from o...<b><a href="http://btcx.syntaxlinks.com/r/YoBit" rel="nofollow">YoBit</a></b> allows you to claim <b>FREE CRYPTO-COINS</b> from over <b><i>100</i></b> unique crypto-currencies, you complete a captcha once and claim as many as coins you can from the available offers.<br /><br />After you make about 20-30 claims, you complete the captcha and keep claiming.<br /><br /><b>You can click claim as much as 50 times per one captcha.</b><br /><br />The coins will <b>stored</b> in your account, and you can exchange them to Bitcoins or USD.Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-42002446380886540702017-06-26T13:40:29.650-04:002017-06-26T13:40:29.650-04:00Well thought-out and spoken. I was an avid reader ...Well thought-out and spoken. I was an avid reader of the Sci-Fi genre for many years, until I took up history and sociology. I of course started with the masters in H.G Wells, Jules Verne and Robert Wyndham, then moving on to others like Robert Heinlein, Niven and Pournelle, and Ursula LeGuin to name but a few of the modern greats. What all these have in common is that there novels on the whole were stand alone and complete. I was weary to buy any book that was to form part of an on going serious, as I was concerned that the author, for what ever reason, may not go on to complete the story. So I only purchased the books of a serious once I knew that the final book had been published. Such was the Rama serious by that other great, Arthur C. Clarke. However, in total violation to my stand on not buying any book serious not yet completed, I, upon reading the first chapter of &#39;A Matter For Men&#39; at my local book store back in 1990, could not put this book down and immediately purchased the book, knowing it stated on the cover that it was &#39;Book One&#39; in a serious, and digested it quicker than a Chtorran worm. I thought it was brilliant! Writing at it&#39;s best, and yes, I wanted more! But even after just the first novel of this story, I realised that this entire scenario, was going to be an extremely tough one to complete in just two or three books. That it may take two things, five or maybe six books and plenty of TIME! Man, was I right about the second one. But the great things in life are worth waiting for, and the fifth book by David in this saga is indeed worth the wait of the last 27 years. So no matter what any mortal says, David, complete the book, publish it. We shall one and all buy it, read it and rejoice. With the conclusion of this wondrous saga your name will be added to the afore mention list of Sci-Fi greats. Not that you seek it, but because this serious of novels, &quot;The War Against The Chtorr&quot; has earned it for you! Malcolm D Muirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07882918639578352666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-19590007881867145282017-06-26T12:38:08.546-04:002017-06-26T12:38:08.546-04:00Get over it! We are not all, gods! Mal DeRium.Get over it! We are not all, gods! Mal DeRium.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-77247596481614322592017-06-26T12:28:49.537-04:002017-06-26T12:28:49.537-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07882918639578352666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-2962907066397184892017-06-16T10:02:23.413-04:002017-06-16T10:02:23.413-04:00Very Nice Post singer is good and very nice songs ...Very Nice Post singer is good and very nice songs thanks.<br /><br />Are you looking for download Music for Videos then this is the best place for you. We provide Loops+5000 Tracks - Radio - Corporate, Backgrounds Original Music for Videos/Film &amp; TV - No copyright -Royalty free music &amp; Audio Full of High Quality.<br /><br /><a href="https://stockmusicpro.net/" rel="nofollow">Music for Videos</a>Stock Music Prohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00637021922669507718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-10179082723416572692017-06-03T20:06:10.466-04:002017-06-03T20:06:10.466-04:00I&#39;ve just installed iStripper, and now I can w...I&#39;ve just installed <b><a href="http://strippers.syntaxlinks.com/r/iStripper" rel="nofollow">iStripper</a></b>, and now I can watch <b>the best virtual strippers</b> stripping on my taskbar.Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-3468800564370300922017-05-11T15:48:46.731-04:002017-05-11T15:48:46.731-04:00Just received a payment for $500.
Sometimes peopl...<b>Just received a payment for $500.</b><br /><br />Sometimes people don&#39;t believe me when I tell them about how much money you can make <b>by taking paid surveys</b> online...<br /><br />So I took a video of myself <a href="http://opinion-surveys.syntaxlinks.com/r/TakeSurveysForCash" rel="nofollow"><b>getting paid $500</b></a> for doing paid surveys to set the record straight once and for all.Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-28731547416132272532015-08-22T18:27:06.190-04:002015-08-22T18:27:06.190-04:00Earthlings invent an enormous bird whistle and poi...Earthlings invent an enormous bird whistle and point it at the heavens after which gargantuan space birds swoop down on earth early one morning and devour every last Chtorr. End of story. Edward T. Babinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13036816926421936940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-54061362699554103402015-08-03T01:33:31.949-04:002015-08-03T01:33:31.949-04:00Sadly once every couple years I google this topic ...Sadly once every couple years I google this topic and 100% agree with you. Perhaps someone else should just write themShawn Piercehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02785519224627115667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-595641704463159222015-08-03T01:33:29.839-04:002015-08-03T01:33:29.839-04:00Sadly once every couple years I google this topic ...Sadly once every couple years I google this topic and 100% agree with you. Perhaps someone else should just write themShawn Piercehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02785519224627115667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-79674167477370008292015-08-03T01:33:19.875-04:002015-08-03T01:33:19.875-04:00Sadly once every couple years I google this topic ...Sadly once every couple years I google this topic and 100% agree with you. Perhaps someone else should just write themShawn Piercehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02785519224627115667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-72507674821703025402015-06-30T06:15:42.880-04:002015-06-30T06:15:42.880-04:00You know what, my young friend? I honestly hope yo...You know what, my young friend? I honestly hope you get your chance. :)Jay W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16401961514919538809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-69073414269318611112015-06-30T06:13:20.597-04:002015-06-30T06:13:20.597-04:00I&#39;m also hoping that if the author dies we&#39...I&#39;m also hoping that if the author dies we&#39;ll still get to read what he HAS written, and all his notes. It happened with Tolkien, vis&#39;a&#39;Silmarillion. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-575242823694472022015-06-30T06:10:51.552-04:002015-06-30T06:10:51.552-04:00I&#39;d just like to say. I&#39;m 16 years old, an...I&#39;d just like to say. I&#39;m 16 years old, and I&#39;ve just finished reading my dad&#39;s collection of the first four books. My reaction to it was partially that it was ahead of its time. Mutliracial and non-straight protagonists in a world charged with ecological science ia EXACTLY what a series needs to get into the public consciousness. Together with all the sex, I could easily foresee it coming back into the limelight with a decent marketting campaign and all the books finished.<br /><br />All this to say, I do NOT think these books are dead. I&#39;m writing this at 3:01 AM becauae I spent the last fourteen hours staring at marked slices of tree, hallucinating vividly that I was on board a massive airship trying to keep the world green and play international politics while watching the horrors of Coari. I&#39;m not unique, I&#39;m certain, and I do believe that there are many others who would thoroughly enjoy this series as I have. Even now I have two friends with books on loan from me.<br /><br />It doesn&#39;t matter to me how many disillusioned old men wanna give up hope, but I guess Aristotle was right in his descriptions of old and young men. I&#39;m not giving up on this and I&#39;m gonna be awaiting this more eagerly than the next Halo game.<br /><br />I mean, it&#39;s not like anyone ever explained to me everything I wanted to know about the biology of mgalekgolo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-44911488117291512132015-01-30T12:11:03.612-05:002015-01-30T12:11:03.612-05:00Yesterday, 1/29/2015, Mr. Gerrold asked for crowd ...Yesterday, 1/29/2015, Mr. Gerrold asked for crowd funding to finish books 5 and 6 via his facebook page. Any donation over $50 gets you a preview link of the first 90 pages of book 5, and 2 chapters of book 6. At various levels above $100, you get to name worms, sponsor chapters, etc. $1000+ and you get a character named after you in books 5, 6, and 7.<br /><br />So anything appearing in 2015 is very doubtful. Unless you care to donate $2500+. Then you get an autographed preview printout of book 5.<br /><br />He also does mention that he has 2 other unrelated novels completed, and 2 more near completion, &quot;and 4 novellas on various desks.&quot;<br /><br />Sigh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-35860603577046963402015-01-28T08:39:35.750-05:002015-01-28T08:39:35.750-05:00Well, here we are....waiting yet again as another ...Well, here we are....waiting yet again as another possible release date goes by.....The closest dates I&#39;ve seen are 1/14/15, 1/31/15, and sometime in February 2015....keep stringing us along....if it ever does come out I think I&#39;ll burn the damn book. It might make good tinder for a campfire.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-22844076517019249022014-12-10T20:47:00.563-05:002014-12-10T20:47:00.563-05:00Great post, agree with the sentiment. A great ser...Great post, agree with the sentiment. A great series start that will never be satisfactory ended. Too bad.infocydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06717475066074726136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-60086402486528330182014-11-08T04:08:50.052-05:002014-11-08T04:08:50.052-05:00I think we are actually the same person! All the w...I think we are actually the same person! All the way down to suburban Chicago, this is my life. Thanks for a great post ... as the morbid curiosity has struck and I&#39;ve landed here with you bunch of rabbit men.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-46484232505573244062014-09-24T06:04:52.391-04:002014-09-24T06:04:52.391-04:00Yeah, It happened to me too.most of your comments ...Yeah, It happened to me too.most of your comments echo myfeelings. since the last book I too I have lost my hair and put four children through high school. My father gave me that book to read and I was stunned at how well it was written. My kids are now at an age I can recommend the book to them... But I won&#39;t. I won&#39;t have them go through the same frustration I went through. At least I didn&#39;t start out reading the previous books. <br /> Then one day out of curiosity I wondered if MFM was finished and I came across MFM available at Amazon for pre-order. I&#39;m afraid to pull the trigger for fear that the rig will be pulled out from me. <br /> I&#39;m stunned at the arrogance of anyone in this day and age to assume they can complete anything or that they won&#39;t die before completing it. Tomorrow is not promised to anyone. It&#39;s the height of arrogance and presumptuousness. My next book will be my last... from him anyway. Joseph Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04933538165648677414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-18374015379675343572014-09-15T01:04:32.368-04:002014-09-15T01:04:32.368-04:00David Gerrold is a cantankerous old man and a hypo...David Gerrold is a cantankerous old man and a hypocrite. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-15146970507118809802014-09-03T00:14:34.272-04:002014-09-03T00:14:34.272-04:00A few months ago I started following him on facebo...A few months ago I started following him on facebook on the off chance he might drop some hints.<br /><br />Yep, almost 2 months ago he asked if people would be interested in funding him via some crowd funding site to finish up the next novel. Just to finish up the next 50,000 words or so, and was only looking for another $5K - $6K to do it.<br /><br />If the man stayed off facebook, I think he could finish it up no problem. At the time, reviewing his recent posting activity, I figured that in about 2 months time he was posting at least 100K words give or take 10 or 20K. Hard to gauge on facebook, because you don&#39;t always get the same results when you re-examine a page.<br /><br />And in the meantime he has redesigned his website. And chtorr.com now gives a redirect to gerrold.com saying the page is not found.<br /><br />I&#39;ve decided the man has zero interest in finishing the series, and probably never will.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-32253205016073612362014-08-20T22:43:17.984-04:002014-08-20T22:43:17.984-04:00There&#39;s 40,000...no, 100,000 words...um, 1/3 o...There&#39;s 40,000...no, 100,000 words...um, 1/3 of every 5th page in every other chapter. There&#39;s a pub date on Amazon or Torr. Wait! No there&#39;s not - he&#39;s confirmed that was &quot;a mistake.&quot; There&#39;s a chapter published in Rat Bag Weakly. Beware, there are spoilers!!<br /><br />Meh. Here&#39;s a clue for anyone with enough connection to the series to still care about the characters (which, BTW, is a big part of the continuing draw to otherwise predictable plot devices)...<br /><br />When is MFM going to be released?<br /><br />It&#39;s<br />.<br />.<br />Not<br />.<br />.<br />Gonna<br />.<br />.<br />Happen.<br /><br />If enough people carp about it, maybe he&#39;ll put a clause in his will to have the existing drafts destroyed, and WHEN he dies before finishing the series we let this thing die with him.<br /><br />Yeah. That&#39;s harsh. My excuse is that I drank too much coffee too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-57554345862742787972014-07-31T14:26:50.042-04:002014-07-31T14:26:50.042-04:00I also will not buy the next book in the series, o...I also will not buy the next book in the series, or the next, until it&#39;s done. Mr. Gerrold has taught me to NOT buy anything from a series until it&#39;s completed. Hmm, funny that a writer is having a negative effect on other writers sales, sad really.<br /><br />But my problem is, I really want to find out what&#39;s gonna happen and who really are the Chtorran&#39;s. This series is like crack to me and I want my fix. But as I am now in my 40&#39;s, I am willing to wait it out. When the series is finished, that&#39;s when I&#39;ll give in to my addiction and buy the books.<br /><br />I could never put my anger and frustration into words, but you really wrote all that has been in my head. Even most of these posts rang true. I spent money on an unfinished product. I spent time with these books over the years, just to be disappointed by a writer that doesn&#39;t care about his work as much as I do. It&#39;s like being in love only to find out that the object of my desire doesn&#39;t love me back. It sucks.<br /><br />Not only is David Gerrold a wonderful writer. I have read most of his books, and really enjoyed his style and ideas. I have gave him my money (in book sales) because of his abilities (and as strange as it sounds) because somewhere in the back of my mind I hoped that my money would help him finish this series. But no longer. He will never see another dime from me (I&#39;ll buy them second hand if they ever come out).<br /><br />He does have talent - he knows how to turn a fan into a person that could care less about any of his writing... and that takes some talent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-50363369782317348402014-07-27T21:31:55.700-04:002014-07-27T21:31:55.700-04:00Yeah, I stopped caring too, though obviously when ...Yeah, I stopped caring too, though obviously when I think about it I get curious enough to google it and that leads me to places like this. <br /><br />What it did teach me was to wait until a series is ended before reading any of the books. Well, actually both Gerrold and GRR Martin did this to me. I read the first two Song of Fire and Ice books and looked at the pace at which they were coming out and decided to wait until the series was done to read any more. <br /><br />I agree with Gaiman, but it also means I hold back my dollars until the series is finished. I will not fund a series by buying in installments. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533435332483542378.post-7253767166533813932014-07-21T05:12:33.239-04:002014-07-21T05:12:33.239-04:00Honestly, after reading the hell out of the series...Honestly, after reading the hell out of the series, then waiting for more Chtorr books since the Internet was just barely a thing, and more recently after following Gerrold&#39;s self-serving rants on Facebook, I just don&#39;t care about his work any longer.<br /><br />Should the books make it into print, I&#39;ll certainly read them, but 2nd hand, because the dude doesn&#39;t deserve any of my money any longer.<br /><br />Terry Pratchett and Neil Asher, though, you can keep spending my hard-earned dollars.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com